Tintern Abbey: A Study on Nature and Aesthetics

Wordsworth is one of the most loving, penetrative, and thoughtful poet of nature. His love of nature probably truer and more tender than that of any other English poet before or since. In the poetry of Wordsworth the most dominant factor is Nature. Nature for Wordsworth is a living presence, the highest and the best of all teachers. For Wordsworth, nature is endowed with personality the mighty being. He declares that nature is a teacher whose wisdom we can learn if we will, and vain and incomplete. He teaches us that between man and nature there is mutual consciousness and mystic relationship. Tintern Abbey sumps up the achievement of Wordsworth as a poet and priest of nature during the first important phase of his poetic career. In Tintern Abbey, Wordsworth reveals his pantheistic vision by viewing nature as a reflection of God. He draws attention to the immanence of God within all the forms of nature. He believes that nature should be treated attentively as a living entity that should be cultivated.

Keywords: Nature, Humanity, Mysticism, Tranquility, Harmony